mean_dist_to_tips: Mean distance from internal nodes to descendant tips

In jsilve24/philr: Phylogenetic partitioning based ILR transform for metagenomics data

Mean distance from internal nodes to descendant tips

Description

Calculates the mean distance from each internal node to its descendant tips

Usage

mean_dist_to_tips(tree)

Arguments

tree	a phylo class tree object that is binary (see multi2di)

Details

This is a function used by calculate.blw when method='mean.descendants', there this function is called twice, once for each direct child of a given internal node and the results are summed for each node.

Value

vector (named if internal nodes are named)

Examples

tr <- named_rtree(5)
mean_dist_to_tips(tr)

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